More than 250 women in Saudi Arabia recently graduated from the Women’s Training Institute with specializations in diplomatic security and Hajj and Umrah security, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
The women are the fourth batch of graduates to complete training at the institute, SPA said in a statement. Women can sign up to join the Saudi Arabian Army, Royal Saudi Air Defense, Royal Saudi Navy, Royal Saudi Strategic Missile Force, and Armed Forces Medical Services.
The ceremony was held under the patronage of the Kingdom’s Minister of Interior Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud and was attended by His Excellency the Director of Public Security, Lieutenant General Muhammad bin Abdullah Al Bassami, according to SPA.
Saudi Arabia had in 2019 announced that it would allow women in the Kingdom to serve in the armed forces. They can also be recruited as soldiers, lance corporals, corporals, sergeants, and staff sergeants, according to the defense ministry.
Saudi women now comprise 37 per cent of the workforce in the kingdom, the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development, Ahmed Al Rajhi, has said. In 2016, only 17.7 per cent of the workforce were female.
Saudi women aged 15 to 24 are actively taking up more jobs, statistics show. Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Statistics’ (Gastat) said their participation rate rose from eight per cent in the second quarter of last year to 50.1 per cent in the third.
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